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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Building A 1968 Camaro Drift Car In Autoshop, and Then Taking It To The SEMA Show AND PRI! This is Something Special!

When the Los Angeles Career Center decides to do something, they go all in. Given the fact that Southern California is the epicenter of hot rodding and racing, it makes sense that a project like this...

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James Garner’s Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

As far as neatnik stuff that has largely been forgotten by history, the old Group 6 Baja desert racing cars rank very high. While we’re not 100% sure on the rule book regulations, our eyes...

Dave McClelland joins the Wally Parks Museum Board

The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsport Museum is one of the coolest must see hot rodding spots in the country, and now Dave McClelland and Tom McKernan, CEO of Automobile Club of Southern California, are...

Video: Ridetech brings us Power Tour, Autocross, and the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge

Our boys at Ridetech not only build the coolest suspension systems on the planet, they also make some cool videos while on the road promoting their products and hanging out with hot rodders. Three of...

RacingJunk Find: A 1972 Deuce and a Half on 53-inch Tires

Old military deuce and a half trucks rule all. Sure they’re big and slow and ride like Fred Flintstone’s car, but the word unstoppable keeps coming to mind when we think of them as well....

Detroit Power Video: The Greatest Truck Pull Footage Ever

If this were just a video of an International big rig pulling a weight sled it would be cool. If that International weren’t four wheel drive and equipped with what appear to be monster truck...

Melted Car Gallery: A 1957 Chevy Wagon Cooked Well Done

After spending the weekend surrounded by kick ass race cars, hot rods, and muscle machines, it is only natural that we’d be giddy to check out a 1957 Chevy wagon that was half melted in a fire...

Caption this Photo: No Sleeping on the Job!

Man, good help is hard to find! As Chad and I prepared for last weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, we were thinking that with the...

Book Review: The Man Who Supercharged Bond by Paul Kenney

We like expanding our automotive horizons when possible, so after we were told that a copy of the limited release book, “The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Historic 1970 Pontiac Firebird Road Racer, The BFG Tire Bird

It’s OK, you can stop looking. We’ve found the coolest 1970 Pontiac Firebird in the world. This restored racer has some interesting history under its belt, like being the first production...

Crazy Video: A Twin-Engine 1956 Ford Truck

Some projects make us scratch our heads and wonder why on Earth the builder spent the time and energy to stick it together. Then there are those projects so totally crazy that they have to be...

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Caption These Photos: Chad Attempts Non-Verbal Communication

While shooting photos on Saturday of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we looked across the track to see our man Chad apparently having some sort of seizure. As it turns out he was trying to...

Barnstormin’: Heat, Sweat, and The Nitro Time Machine

My clothes no longer reek of nitro, the SPF 90 sunblock has finally left my pores, and another memorable weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky has drawn to a close. The 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod...

Founding NASCAR Legend Raymond Parks Passes at 96

The last living participant in the meeting that founded NASCAR, Raymond Parks, has died at the age of 96. Parks was an early car owner and quickly established himself as the head of the finest racing...

Wrap Up: BangShift.com’s 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage

The dust has settled, our clothes don’t smell like nitro anymore, and we’re getting ready to repair a blown out flip flop. It’s going to be tough to beat this year’s...